Fine Mess Pottery

Some favorite pieces from the last firing: I am especially delighted with the vermiculations ("worm-shapes") on the top casserole....

The first bricks for the new kiln! Doug, inveterate scavenger that he is,  rescued these from the rubble pile at Watershed. They were piled ...

RIP, Patrick.

For some reason I always enjoy waxing day in the studio. It's a sort of mindless task that falls between making and glazing, one which o...

John Britt has a brief, funny post over at Clay Club; one which wryly addresses the question I have been chewing on for the last year, or re...

... Wondered, whatever became of me ? Well, I am still here, trying to regain my traction. Here's what's keeping me away from the bl...

Because I was anxious about re-injuring my shoulder, I stuck with very small bowls to start with. These were a pound and a half -- about the...

Since early spring I've had some soreness and loss of range of motion in both shoulders. I thought that they were improving -- my right ...

I don't do custom work, except when I do. I have often vowed not to take any more orders, because, in my experience, no matter how well ...

I learned via Twitter this morning this is National Clay Week. If I'd known it was coming, I'd have fired a kiln! Instead I made lid...

I hope. I don't usually sketch first -- I just keep making variations, sort of sketching three dimensionally -- but I can't quite ge...

I had a wake up call this week, in the form of a voicemail from the director of Watershed, asking for a callback regarding the kilns. Tyler ...